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Special Issue on Artificial Evolution Methods in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences: DEADLINE IS APPROACHING

JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION AND APPLICATIONS
(http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/)
Special issue on
Artificial Evolution Methods in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/osi.html
************* DEADLINE *********** 15 NOVEMBER 2008 ****************
======================================================================
The biological and biomedical sciences are facing an information
explosion and an understanding implosion. That is, our ability to
generate information about biological systems is far outpacing our
ability to make sense of it. Computational intelligence methods are
needed now more than ever to facilitate the analysis and
interpretation of mountains of data.
This special issue of the Journal of Artificial Evolution and
Applications will focus on recent advances in artificial evolution
methods such as agent-based modeling, artificial immune systems,
estimation of distribution algorithms, evolutionary algorithms,
genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and swarm intelligence for
solving complex problems in the biological and biomedical sciences.
The aim is to attract papers that present new artificial evolution
methods with application to biological and biomedical data and
problems. Of particular interest are papers that analyze or model real
data, that address the hierarchical complexity of biological systems
and that provide a biological interpretation and/or experimental
validation of the results.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
* Data mining in biological or biomedical databases
* Diagnostic or predictive testing in epidemiology and genetics
* Functional diversification through gene duplication
and exon shuffling
* Gene expression and regulation, alternative splicing
* Genetic association studies
* Haplotype and linkage disequilibrium analysis
* Image analysis and pattern recognition
* Metabolomics and metabolic control analysis
* Microarray analysis
* Network reconstruction and modeling
* Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis
* Phylogenetic reconstruction and analysis
* Relationships between evolved systems and their environment
(e.g., phylogeography)
* Relationships within evolved communities (cooperation,
coevolution, symbiosis, etc.)
* Sensitivity of speciation to variations in
evolutionary processes
* Sequence alignment and analysis
* Simulation of cells, viruses, organisms, and whole ecologies
* Structure prediction for biological molecules
(structural biology)
* Systems biology
Authors should follow the Journal of Artificial Evolution and
Applications manuscript format described at the journal site
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/. Prospective authors should
submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:
Submission: NOVEMBER 15, 2008
First round of reviews: January 1, 2009
Tentative publication date: Spring 2009
HOW TO SUBMIT:
To submit a manuscript to this special issue, please use the
manuscript tracking system available at
http://mts.hindawi.com/login.aspx
You will need to register as an author before you can submit a
paper. Once, you have done that, log in into the system and click on
"Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications". Then click on
"Author activities" and then on "Submit a new manuscript". Then tick
the four boxes (headed "Authors Contact Information", "Policy on
Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication", "Manuscript Preparation", "Open
Access") and click "Accept". You will be presented with a form where
you can enter title, etc. Under the drop down list "Special/Regular
Issue" please select "". The rest
should be self explanatory.
MORE INFORMATION
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications (JAEA) is a new
journal which aims at being a reference for all researchers and
practitioners who study the theory and application of methodologies
pertaining to Evolutionary Computation and related fields.
The journal has a prestigious advisory board including some of the
fathers of our field and an international editorial board of highly
visible and respected researchers led by an young and energetic editor
in chief (see http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/editors.html).
JAEA has an open access publication policy, meaning that articles will
be freely available for all to download. The publisher will normally
charge a 400 Euro flat fee in return, independent of the manuscript
length.
For more information, feel free to approach one of the guest editors
(see below).
GUEST EDITORS:
Janet Clegg,
Department of Electronics,
The University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Jason H. Moore,
Department of Genetics,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Marylyn Ritchie,
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Stephen Smith,
Department of Electronics,
The University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Elena Marchiori,
Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen,
Postbus 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands